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Triumphant Return – Champions Tour Back In Canada

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16 years ago

Jun 30, 2010

It’s been seven years since the Champions Tour has ventured north of the border but they are back and in a big way.

The Champions Tour Montreal Championship officially kicks off tournament rounds on Friday at Club de Golf Le Fountainebleau in Blainville, Quebec and golf fans couldn’t ask for better circumstances. On top of being hosted by a quality Darrell Huxham/Graham Cooke design, the field for the inaugural Montreal Championship is nothing short of spectacular.

With the exception of Tom Watson, just about every significant Champions Tour player has made the trek to Canada. That includes 23 of the top 30 players from the current Charles Schwab Cup points’ standings. Among the recognizable names are Fred Couples, Tom Kite, Craig Stadler, Mark Calcavecchia, Peter Jacobsen, Corey Pavin, Tom Lehman, Wayne Levi and last week’s Dicks Sporting Goods Open winner, Loren Roberts.

“I’m excited to be here,” Roberts told Flagstick Wednesday morning. “It’s a little cooler right now than I am used to but I hear it is warming up which should be good,” he mentioned as the temperatures hovered just over 55 degrees and the wind was up. A warm front is expected to push temperatures over the 90 mark by the time the tournament concludes on Sunday.

It’s safe to say that some of the best senior-aged players are in Canada this week and the local golf fans plan to embrace them in a big way. While many of their eyes will be on fan favourite Fred Couples, who has already won three Champions Tour events in 2010, a lot of attention will also be given to Corey Pavin, especially after his playoff loss on the PGA Tour last week.

“It’s great to be back in Canada; to be back in Montreal,” Pavin said Wednesday. “It’s always nice to have a new event and in a new place. Montreal is great city; it’s a beautiful city. People seem to be excited to have us and we’re excited to be here.”

The Montreal Championship is one of three new events on the Champions Tour this year. It joins the Mississippi Gulf Resort Classic, won earlier this year by David Eger, and the tour’s first official event to be played in Asia, the New Songdo City Championship set for early September in South Korea.

While this event is new, the PGA Tour has a long history in the province of Quebec. The Canadian Open has been played in the Montreal area 19 times, most recently in 2001 at Royal Montreal GC. At the same club a team from the United States defeated the European squad in the 2007 Presidents Cup matches. The Champions Tour’s only other visit to the province occurred in 1999 for what was then the AT&T Senior Open Championship. It was hosted by the Richelieu Valley Golf Club in Sainte-Julie, Quebec.

The purse this week is $1,800,000 with the winner earning $270,000. The Golf Channel will be providing tape-delayed coverage.

This report provided to GolfWRX.com by Flagstick Golf Magazine (www.flagstick.com)

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Photos from the 2026 OccuNet Classic

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37 mins ago

Jun 9, 2026

GolfWRX Staff

With the PGA Tour across the border in Canada this week, GolfWRX Tour Photographer Greg Moore stayed stateside and headed to the OccuNet Classic presented by Amarillo National Bank in Amarillo, Texas.

It’s always interesting to see what the guys are playing on the KFT, and this week certainly hasn’t disappointed so far, with some incredible wedge stamping on display.

Check out links to all our albums below.

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2026 OccuNet Classic (KFT) – Monday #1

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Luke Potter’s custom Cameron putter – 2026 OccuNet Classic (KFT)

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From the GolfWRX Classifieds: Scotty Cameron GOLO 6 with BGT Stability Tour2 2022 M Edition

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57 mins ago

Jun 9, 2026

Will Schube

At GolfWRX, we are a community of like-minded individuals who all experience and express our enjoyment of the game in many ways.

It’s that sense of community that drives day-to-day interactions in the forums on topics that range from best driver to what marker you use to mark your ball. It even allows us to share another thing we all love – buying and selling equipment.

Currently, in our GolfWRX buy/sell/trade (BST) forum, @HuskerFlyer is sharing a Scotty Cameron GOLO with a BGT Stability Tour2 2022 M Edition shaft. While the putter is certainly enviable, the Augusta-inspired shaft is equally noteworthy.

From the listing:

Scotty Cameron Golo 6 with BGT Stability Tour2 2022 M Edition Scotty Headcover 34″ $375

To check out the full listing in our BST forum, head through the link. If you are curious about the rules to participate in the BST Forum, you can learn more here: GolfWRX BST Rules.

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J.T. Poston delivers career-changing victory after major gear changes

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22 hours ago

Jun 8, 2026

Alistair Cameron

J.T. Poston required extra holes Sunday to earn a handshake from Jack Nicklaus himself and walk away with the biggest victory of his career.

Poston outlasted Ryan Gerard on the second playoff hole at the Memorial Tournament, and the victory at Jack’s place was aided by two significant gear switches ahead of the tournament in Ohio.

Firstly, Poston swapped from the Titleist Pro V1x to the new Pro V1x Left Dash in his last start at the Charles Schwab Challenge. It’s the ball that made headlines just a month ago, when Jordan Spieth also transitioned into the low-spinning variant at the Cadillac Championship.

Poston’s ball change was spurred by a discussion with Titleist Tour reps about testing some options that could be a little better for him in the wind, after the now four-time PGA Tour winner had gained slightly more speed of late and was feeling like his irons and full wedge shots were overspinning.

Poston spent time testing both the current-generation Pro V1 and the new Left Dash at home the week after the PGA Championship, and at Colonial Country Club, he spent more time dialing things in on the range with J.J. Van Wezenbeeck before deciding to tee up the Left Dash that week. At the time, Poston was 85th in SG: Approach (+0.024); he gained +1.402 at Colonial.

“So we felt like today was going to be a good test of that and it obviously performed really well,” Poston said after a second-round 65 at Muirfield Village which propelled him into the lead. “We had a couple shots that I felt like didn’t quite hit ’em perfect and it hung in there pretty well. So I feel like just having that confidence in that too is big, where I just — we’re trying to hit the smart shot and hit the right shot and just trying to execute and go from there.”

On his way to victory, Poston delivered a dominant performance from tee-to-green and was +8.081 in approach and tied for fourth in greens in regulation.

Poston’s Memorial victory was also the first on Tour for the new torched line of TaylorMade’s 2026 Spider putters. Poston also added the L-Neck Tour X at the Charles Schwab Challenge the week prior, something prompted because “it seems to be working for a lot of the other guys.”

A usually reliable putter, Poston had dropped to as low as 89th on Tour in strokes gained, and when he saw his good friend Denny McCarthy using the Spider, he thought about the change. With the new flatstick in hand, Poston gained close to seven shots on the field at the Memorial and ranked third in SG: Putting for the week.

Poston was the first to agree, though, that neither switch was more important than the other.

“The ball got me there, the putter helped me get it in the hole,” Poston said.

See Poston’s full winning WITB here.